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  • Interesting Tidbits for February 9th

    Things worth reading for February 7th through February 9th: Why Didn’t a Newspaper Create The Huffington Post?: Tech News and Analysis « – More thoughtful analysis on the HuffPo/AOL marriage from GigaOm: “As author Clay Christensen outlined in The Innovator’s Dilemma, it is almost impossible for a company that has an established business in one…

  • Interesting Tidbits for February 7th

    Things worth reading for February 3rd through February 7th: AOL+HuffPo! Why It is Not Really a Good Deal: Tech News and Analysis « – Om’s analysis of the AOL acquisition of HuffPo. Good read. AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million – ‘In one of the biggest digital publishing deals in recent memory, AOL has…

  • Interesting Tidbits for February 3rd

    Things worth reading for February 2nd through February 3rd: Is Your Calendar Managing You? – Ron Ashkenas – Harvard Business Review – Speaking of feeling overwhelmed… “Collectively, the demands we face at work are daunting and require constant juggling and trade-offs. For senior people much of this juggling is done by an executive assistant and/or…

  • Interesting Tidbits for February 2nd

    Things worth reading for January 31st through February 2nd: Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: “Deep Media,” Transmedia, What’s the Difference?: An Interview with Frank Rose (Part One) – First part of a wide-ranging and brilliant discussion between Henry Jenkins and Frank Rose, author of a forthcoming book on “Deep Media.” Jaron Lanier: “Friction-Free” Is the…

  • Interesting Tidbits for January 25th

    Things worth reading for January 24th through January 25th: The Networked Librarian | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project – Lee gave a terrific keynote at the December Agency Summit. If you’re in SF on 3/23, don’t miss his talk: “Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project,…

  • Interesting Tidbits for January 20th

    Things worth reading for January 17th through January 20th: LivingSocial Exceeds One Million Amazon Gift Cards Sold With Hours to Spare – And more on Living Social… At Deal Site LivingSocial, Fast Growth And High Risk : NPR – Nice profile of Living Social from NPR… Is Mobile Affecting When We Read? « Read It…

  • Interesting Tidbits for January 17th

    Things worth reading for January 17th: Brands Create Media Outlets Online, Bypassing Magazines – NYTimes.com – “In the not-so-distant past, a luxury brand like Richemont, the Swiss company that owns Piaget, Dunhill and Montblanc, would have killed for even the slightest attention from Jeremy Langmead, the editor of British Esquire. “Now, he works for them,…

  • Can anybody help me to identify the source of this Schopenhauer quote?

    Hi there! At Le Web last month Alexander Tamas of DST International mentioned this famous quotation by Schopenhauer, but while I can find the full quotation (see below) easily enough I can’t manage to place it in Schopenhauer’s ouvre. Can anybody answer this one? “Authors can be divided into meteors, planets and fixed stars. The…

  • Interesting Tidbits for January 12th

    Things worth reading for January 11th through January 12th: Comics to capital markets, – VERY interesting guest post by investment banker Knolla on how he learns and tracks the markets. Some of his insight sources will surprise you: ““the ‘shared worlds’ of Marvel, DC, Valiant & Image comic books as well as the Dragonlance &…

  • Book Review: “Scrawl,” a terrific YA novel by Mark Shulman

    Here’s the executive summary of this post: “Scrawl” reveals the inner life of a junior high school bully, a huge, violent, lower class, shambling boy named Tod Munn who is secretly brilliant but plays being an oaf to conceal his intelligence and retain his hidden-in-plain-sight status in the complex social economy of his school. We…